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By Michael Brooks FERC on Thursday proposed changes to its pro forma large generator interconnection rules intended to increase certainty and transparency for new resources (RM17-8). The commission issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in response to feedback gathered at a May technical conference and in subsequent comments. (See Generators,...
By Amanda Durish Cook Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will get its own utility, two new generating plants — and maybe additional transmission — following actions by regulators and MISO officials seeking to address the region’s reliability and cost concerns. MISO said Wednesday it has committed to a study examining the benefits...
By Robert Mullin The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday ordered Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to meet with groups opposed to the commission’s 2014 settlement that saddled ratepayers with 70% of the costs related to the premature closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
SPP says it has successfully implemented system changes required by FERC Order 809, which ordered RTOs to improve the alignment of their market schedules with those of interstate gas pipelines (RM14-2). SPP’s changes took effect Sept. 30. “After roughly two months of operational experience, it appears it’s successful so far,”...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC last week approved ISO-NE rule changes requiring almost 1,100 MW of non-dispatchable generation to purchase equipment allowing them to receive electronic dispatch instructions from the RTO (ER17-68). [caption id="attachment_35314" align="alignright" width="300"] Utility scale biomass plants in New England | Innovative Natural Resource Solutions[/caption] The new...
By Rory D. Sweeney WILMINGTON, Del. — The increasing complexity of distribution systems is creating a new “seam” for grid operators, representatives from an industry planning collaborative, the U.S. Department of Energy and Johns Hopkins University said at PJM’s General Session last week on the evolution of system planning. The...
By Tom Kleckner Citing market conditions that have changed “substantially” and the availability of “more economic alternatives,” Entergy announced Thursday it intends to shut down its Palisades nuclear plant on Oct. 1, 2018. Entergy said a power purchase agreement between the plant, located in Covert Township, Mich., and Consumers Energy...
By William Opalka FERC on Wednesday approved Exelon’s acquisition of the troubled James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in New York, rejecting a protest that its review should have included the impact of a state-mandated ratepayer subsidy (EC16-169). Plant owner Entergy told New York officials that without the $110 million sale,...
By William Opalka Millennium Pipeline has taken New York to federal court to force action on a gas line needed for an under-construction power plant entangled in a corruption scandal (16-1415). In a 32-page brief filed Monday with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the company says the state Department...
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